DYING WIDOW’S HOARD

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6544, 28 February 1928, Page 2

DYING WIDOW’S HOARD

TWENTY YEARS ALONE. ' Over £2,500 In Treasury notes, soyerigns, and silver were found roughly tied up in aji old newspaper-when the police broke into l on, .eccentric old > widow’s house at Hulmo,one of •‘the poorest districts in Manchester. r She was Mrs. Aim Stanley, the owner of nine housed, .ari£,;;bht for ijie fact that she ihad ho|Joall64? for her, rents, which alone'.'chiised her ; tto leave hex- untidy and?- Ifadly furnished home, nothing might have beeA known of her plight. ' . I ~ " ■; . The police found her very ill, and she died soon after her . romoyM to hospital. In her roijms were fbund an uncooked goose and a number_.of mince pies. Later inquiries showed that she had £IOOO to her Credit- at the bank. “She was an odd‘character,” said one of her neighbours. “She was rarely seen out: —apart, from her most punctual rent-collecting tours —and never discussed her private affairs with anyone. • She took care of Her pennies, and ne’vcr spent a penny when a half-penny would do. She wore the same old clothes .and had lived alone in the same house for 20 years.” Mrs Stanley had .neither sons pop daughters, buj; had a sister and invalid brother in Manchester. So far -no will has been discovered.